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Office Planning
Office Planning and Design There are many people that I have worked with and observed over the years who will endeavour to over complicate design and the…
Calculating Design Fees
Calculating Design Fees Calculating design fees is based on a simple system called cost based pricing. It is a method of working out your charge out based…
Pricing Products for interiors
Pricing Products for Interiors This article shows a method of determining how you can go about pricing products for interiors. If you are trading as a…
Professional Interior Design
Professional Interior Design, The Business Side Designers love their profession but often struggle with the complexity of running a professional interior…
Marketing Design Business
Marketing Design Business and Interior Designers Marketing design business and designers discusses and explores the definitions and available…
- Business Networking for Design
  Business Networking All people need to network and business people especially. Most importantly you need to target who you network and socialize with. Busi…
- Press Release Promotion
  Promoting your Business with Press Release A design business can use press release promotion in any number of ways with the most important part of the release…
- Design Products
  Design Products Design is not the only design product we have and yet its commonly perceived as the main body of our work. There are many design products and…
- Design Business Promotion
  Design Business Promotion for Smaller Businesses Business Promotion for the Small Design Business, Building Your Name as a Brand Design business promotion.…
- Market Placement
  Market Placement Of the four P's of marketing, "place" as a designer may not appear as important as the others but its still a subject worthy of discussion…
- Design Business Advertising
  Design Business Advertising Methods Advertising has two effects. It sometimes brings in a sale, it always helps build the brand or name in this case as…
- Marketing Design Services
  The Four P's of Marketing Design Services This section relates to marketing design services for interior design companies. Marketing has a very common…
- Promoting Design Business
  Promoting Design Business Promoting design business is part of the specialist marketing mix of business. Word of mouth just isn't enough to promote your…
Hospitality Design
Hospitality Design - an Introduction Hospitality design is a specialist subject and particular areas of hospitality are niches within themselves. The subject…
- Theming a Cafe
  Theming a Cafe -Part 1 This exercise is demonstrated with a real life project. An existing food outlet in cafe form was to be sponsored by a company so that…
- Cafe Theme
  Cafe Theme - Part 2 cafe theme part 1 Developing the system further, a requirement from the sponsor was to have their product at the point of sale as well…
- Nightclub Design
  Nightclub Design When designing a nightclub consider in its most basic functions, what the club is there for; having a good time, meeting people and being…
- Planning Nightclubs
  Planning Nightclubs For those who are new to the bubble diagram system this is planning in its simplest form. Basically this uses the areas we listed in the…
- Designing for Sex
  Designing for Sex Why do people frequent bars and nightclubs. Psychology 101 will teach you that human beings are social animals and that we have…
Design Tools
Interior Design Tools The list is endless of interior design tools you need to make you a good designer. We learn so many useful design tools that we often…
- Planning a New Home
  Planning a New Home from Start to Finish This exercise shows how a professional designer goes about planning a new home construction from start to finish. …
- How to get an Estimate
  How to Get an Estimate or Quotation Getting a price for work around your house or you have employed a consultant to organize it seems like any easy thing to…
- How to Site Measure
  How to Site Measure and Survey As a designer we have numerous processes that we have to go through, or routines you may call them. The site measure and survey…
- Imperial Conversion Factors
  Imperial Conversion Factors to Find Metric Measurements Imperial conversion factors is a handy tool when working between the metric and imperial systems.…
- Perspective Drawing by Computer
  Perspective Drawing by Computer You have read about perspective drawing by hand now try perspective drawing by computer using specific interior design…
- Perspective Drawing by Hand
  Perspective Drawing by Hand - Hand or computer drawing? (to go straight to computer aided perspectives) When I first started in this industry I was taught…
- The Design Process
  The Design Process Often with all that goes on in a business, or life it is very difficult for the new designer to know where to start and remember from…
- Calculating Lighting
  Calculating Lighting When calculating lighting there are a number of easy systems to use for the rough calculation of light within a space. The following is…
- Bubble Diagrams for Design
  What is a Bubble Diagram? This is a planning tool that allows groups or particularly important items to be represented simply and quickly when starting basic…
- Anthropometric Data
  Basic Anthropometric Data and Ergonomic Data Basic anthropometric and ergonomic data for interior designers and decorators. Anthropometry is the scientific…
Construction
Construction and Home Building Information for Interior Designers As interior designers we would like to not have to learn about construction but unfortunate…
- New Home Construction
  The Construction of a New Home from Start to Finish Read on to see a timber framed house being built from the foundations to the finished interior decoration. …
- Ceilings
  
  Introduction to Ceilings and their Function in the Interior The ceiling finish or product is attached to the ceiling battens under the roof framing and is…
- Forces on Buildings
  Forces that act on Buildings This article will discuss the forces that may act on a building and how they effect it. A force on a structure is the weight…
- Foundations the Substrate
  Interior Design Construction Information on Building Foundations - The Substrate The Substrate Within a building everything is attached to or sits on…
- Framed Members and Structures
  Framed Members and Building Structures - Introduction to Construction As part of construction education this article discusses framing versus solid constructio…
- Glass
  Types of Window Glass and Glazing Definitions What is glass? Glass is a chemically inert, brittle, hard but transparent construction material. Foamed or…
- House Insulation
  Ways to Save Energy Around your Home by using Insulation Making your home more energy efficient and saving you money on your electricity bill. Houses…
- Interior Design Construction
  Basic Interior Design Construction Knowledge for Interior Designers While interior design and decoration are the fun parts that make the interior's aesthetics…
- Proportion and Balance
  Interior Design Proportion and Balance Understanding interior design proportion and balance has to be a skill that is mastered as an interior designer. One of…
- Sound Control
  Sound Control and Noise Reduction for Home Interiors Noise / Sound Transference in the home For an interior to be harmonious we need to consider all the…
- Stairs
  Stair Design and Construction What we need to know about stairs. Interior designers can really make a statement with stairs. The design and finish of the…
- The Fibonacci Series
  The Fibonacci Series The Fibonacci series is a series of numbers developed by the Italian mathematician Leonard Fibonacci. The series is calculated by…
- The Golden Mean
  The Golden Mean This refers to a mathematical proportion (I can hear most designers groaning now but it is actually quite simple) that is believed to be…
- Wall Openings
  Wall Openings Because the framing is removed within the opening of a wall to install a door or a window, we need to support the framing above, to the sides…
- Walls
  The Construction of Walls On top of the foundation, and sometimes the floor, sit walls. These are used to hold the roof up, keep the weather out, provide…
- Windows
  Types of Windows Window Construction The frame for a window can be made from a number of materials, all of which are impervious and resilient to weather or…
Drafting - Drawing
Introduction to Drafting Techniques Why do we use drafting to communicate our ideas? We draft our ideas so someone else can understand your designs and to…
- Drafting Equipment
  Drafting Equipment To successfully draw or draft you are going to need some specialist drafting equipment. This doesn't have to be expensive drawing machines…
- Drawing Equipment
  Drawing Equipment Requirements A Clutch Pencil and Clutch Pencil Sharpener The reason I prefer you to use this is that you are able to change the leads and…
- Drawing Sheet Requirements
  Drawing Sheet Requirements On the drawing sheet the following information should be shown in the title block. A revision/note/legend column This is for…
- Plan Drawing Definitions
  Plan Drawing and Document Definitions Component Drawings Component range. Drawings that show the basic sizes, reference and performance data for a set of…
- Types of Drawings
  Drawing Types With interior design there are a numerous types of drawings. We will cover the different methods further on into this tutorial. In the broader…
- Types of Plans
  Types of Plans Learn the different types of plans used within the interior design industry. As with all trades or professions there are certain definitions…
Project Management
Introduction to Project Management In every interior design projects there are three major areas that need to be addressed: Design Cost Time frame As a…
- Contractors
  Building Contractors for Project Management In general building contractors are skilled tradesmen who have undergone theoretical training as well as the…
- Consultants
  Project Management Construction Consultants There are a number of professions structured around the building industry. These are called consultants. The…
- Different Types of Contracts
  Different Types of Building Contracts Used for Construction Projects The types of building contracts that are commonly used are listed below: Traditional…
- Elements of Project Management
  Elements Of Project Management - Checks and Tasks CHECKS AND BALANCES It doesn’t matter if you have employed someone to project manage or you are doing…
- Product Specification Supply
  Product Specification Supply/Delivery When commencing a project it is important to have a time frame as this can dictate what products you as a designer can…
- Project Management Diary
  Project Management Diary This has been mentioned often in the previous text. What it refers to is a simple way of keeping track of information that is passed…
- Requirements of a Contract
  Basic Requirements of a Building Contract Here is a basic checklist that should be the minimum areas to be covered and the requirements of a building…
- Starting a Design Project
  Starting a Design Project Once you have identified a design project that you would like to undertake, it could be from redecorating a room to the full…
- Why do You Need a Contract
  Why Do You Need a Contract? When you sign up to a contract you need to have the remuneration that has been quoted or agreed on and all the elements broken…
Planning Design Business
Planning Design Business Why do we need to plan our design business? We need to plan our design business to make it run smoothly, identify potential and…
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